A presentation made on the European Catalogue for ICT Standards in procurement. Made in June 2016 to standardisation stakeholders (represented by the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation). This initiative is action 5 of the EU Action plan on eGovernment 2016-2020. More on https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/european_catalogue/description

1. European Catalogue of standards
MSP, 16 June 2016
Benoit Abeloos – EC, DG CNECT
Rodolphe Wouters – EC, DG GROW

2. Political Context: Digital Single Market
• "Moreover, availability of standards is often not
sufficient to ensure interoperability, if existing
standards are not integrated by suppliers in their
solutions. Public procurement plays an important
role in promoting standards and Member States
have created national catalogues of ICT-standards
and interoperability specifications to guide public
procurers and accelerate standards adoption on
national markets. Integrating these catalogues into
European catalogues would avoid market
fragmentation at EU level."
• COM(2015) 192 final

3. eGov Action Plan 2016-2020
• Published on 19 April 2016: COM(2016) 179
• Action 5: Coordinate the development of a
prototype for a European Catalogue of ICT
standards for public procurement
• Target date: 2017

4. What problems do we want to solve?
EU
Catalogue
Interoperability
ICT Market
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Single reference point to drive interoperability
Increase the adoption rate of common standards
Coordination mechanism across countries and
sectors
Reduce fragmentation
More transparent
Enables economies of scale
Support for integrated procurement market
places
Lower cost of procurement process
Greater awareness of procurement across EU
Coordination mechanism
Speed up procurement process
Promote integration with existing platforms
Support for suppliers across `EU
Lower barriers
Survey on ICT procurement:
42% of stakeholders perceive vendor lock-in
26% of tender notices analysed received only one offer
12% of tenders with direct reference to vendors

5. What exists today?
• National Catalogues
• Some Member states have
defined an interoperability
strategy which identifies
compulsory and
recommended TS for public
administrations.

6. What do we want to build?
A catalogue for (public) procurers:
•Based on business use cases
•Standards, profiles, guidelines on how to address them
•Consensus based and multi-stakeholders governance process
•Direct engagement of MS
•Consistency with National Catalogue

7. Link with Identification procedure
• The European Catalogue will prioritise the TS to
be identified, ensuring relevance, coherence
within a use case, and link to procurement needs
at EU level.
• Done with MS, through the European Catalogue
governance
• Could simplify the evaluation part of the
identification procedure within the MSP by
reusing evaluations done at national level

8. Example of Use Case: eDelivery
• What? Secure and reliable exchange of
documents and data (structured, non-
structured and/or binary), both across borders
and sectors

9. Governance workshops
• TO BE COMPLETED - Summary of results with one slide on
the recommended structure (and delete the other one, see
2 next slides)
• …..

10. Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Strawman 1: MS driven and EC
managed
Assisting the Board of
Reviewers.
Resources provided by the EC
Teams of technical experts organised by domains
MANAGEMENT TEAM (MT)
Responsible for the operation of the EU Catalogue.
Comprising a chairman from the most relevant DG and the head of each
expert group. All part of EC and selected by EC
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
Responsible for a Domain
Led by DG CONNECT and
comprising independent
external experts
Responsible for Domain
Led by DG ENERGY and
comprising independent
external experts
Responsible for a Domain
Led by DG MOVE and
comprising independent
external experts
Lea by most relevant DG and
comprising independent
external experts
Restricted MSP
GROWTH
CONNECT
GROWTH
CONNECT
GROWTH
CONNECT
CONNECT CONNECT ENERGY MOVE OTHER DG
Domain relevant
civil society
organisations
Procurement
platforms
Domain based
platforms
Innovation
platforms
Citizens
Procurement expertsDomain experts

11. Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Strawman 2: MS driven and
managed
Assisting the MC
Resources provided by the
national catalogues
Teams of technical experts organised by domains
MANAGEMENT TEAM (MT)
Responsible for the operation of the EU Catalogue and coordination with
national catalogues
Comprising a chairman and head from each expert group selected by the
MC
Responsible for a Domain
Led by a head selected by MC
and comprising independent
external experts
Resposible for Domain
Led by a head selected by MC
and comprising independent
external experts
Responsible for a Domain
Led by a head selected by MC
and comprising independent
external experts
Led by a head selected by MC
and comprising independent
external experts
Restricted MSP
CONNECT
GROWTH
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
CONNECT
GROWTH
DIGIT
ENERGY
MOVE
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
NATIONAL
CATALOGUES
Coordinating with
all the operating
catalogues
Domain relevant
civil society
organisations
Procurement
platforms
Domain based
platforms
Innovation
platforms
Citizens
Procurement expertsDomain expertsNational
innovation experts

12. Status & Next steps
• Status
• Study kicked off in Feb 2016: Analysis, Establishment, Launch and
operation of a European Catalogue or ICT standards for public
procurement
• 4 domains: eGovernment, Intelligent Transport Systems, Cloud
Computing, and energy appliances
• We invite you to participate to the Online survey
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EuropeanCatalogueofStandards
• Next steps
• Workshops on eGov, ITS, cloud, and energy appliances
• Impact assessment study (2017)

13. Questions?